RE-SL Little Wings

Like Jon-Hann has mentioned, the second lesson was like a lost battle. I think the main problem was that we were not meticulous enough in our preparation. Even though we had our lesson plans done early, we did not start with our actual lesson preparation right after that. I think that led to the rather last minute preparation, which led to the disaster on Thursday. Also, we were not careful with our the how we wished to teach the children. We mainly had a rough idea of the things we wanted to teach, but we failed to anticipate the problems that we may face with conducting our lessons. We failed to analyse our own lesson from the perspective of the children and craft our lesson at a suitable difficulty level. Using words like 'landscape' and not being prepared to explain it to the children was a great setback already.

Thus, for our subsequent lessons, I think we really have to learn from our mistakes and to ensure that we do not repeat them anymore. I think this are the precautions we have to take:

1) Be done with preparation of lesson, like ppt, a week before the lesson.

2) Alter the ppt to ensure it is of suitable difficulty

3) Be prepared to explain every detail of the lesson

4) Have a dry run before the lesson

5) Anticipate problems and think of ways to counter them

6) Everyone to know what must be done as a group, and how to present ourselves in the lesson.

That being said, I really hope we are able to bring up the standards of our lessons and ensure that we do better next time. That being said, I need Shi Jian to stop lying around in the classroom during lessons, and we would also have to discuss about whether we want Shaun to be springing us with questions as if he were one of the children. Whatever it is that you wish to do during the lessons, please confirm it with the group before doing anything silly. I think Shi Jian can most definitely be helping the children and checking if they understand, during the lesson instead of just lying there. I think we should set some standards here as we are after all representing our school, and being role models to the children.

With so much to be done, I think we would first need to look at preparing for our subsequent lessons. Jon-Hann and Shaun, please work on the next lesson real quick. We definitely want to be over-prepared for our next lesson. Shi Jian, reflect upon your conduct for the last lesson. You ought to be ashamed. I need you to help the team look at how our lessons should continue to progress. Has our lessons been useful so far? How can we still lead up to our final activity of the story? Rattanin, please review our previous 2 lessons. I figured that you should add in artistic aspects for Shaun's next 2 lessons too, so that they would not be so boring. Please think of the things you want to do, and work with Shaun to add them in. Jon-Hann, I think we should also start preparing for your dramatization lesson. So, here is the structure breakdown of work:

Ping Chong: Review structure of lessons and altering future lesson plans. Work with Jon-Hann for the lesson preparation of Lesson 5.

Jon-Hann: Help Shaun with preparation of Lesson 3 & 4. Start preparing for Lesson 5 with Ping Chong

Shuan: Prepare for Lesson 3 & 4

Rattanin: Review previous 2 lessons and work with Shaun to add in artistic aspects for Lesson 3 & 4

Shi Jian: Reflection on personal conduct (In form of blog post or send me an email or letter). Review structure of lessons and altering future lesson plans.

For the coming week, myself and Shi Jian would be missing out on RE period due to SYF. Do finalize the lesson plan during that period (Which means you would have to be prepared with the ppt before meeting on Wednesday). Hope we can all do our part for our RESL and make it a success!

Ping Chong